Final Render Drop 2 released

Cebas has announced the latest update to Final Render, its hybrid CPU and GPU renderer. Earlier this year Cebas updated Final Render to take full advantage of CPU and GPU hardware when rendering in addition to reductions in GPU memory usage of up to 50% and 25% improvements in processing time. In Drop 2, released today, Cebas has improved speed improvements still further and extended the hybrid system with a new biased light cache it calls biasHybrid, which combines bias and unbiased techniques in a single light cache. 

Cebas CEO Edwin Braun describes the new feature: “a biased rendering method has been “married” with a true unbiased spectral based rendering technology […], we have combined perfectly those traditionally contradictory rendering methods into one simple-to-use but powerful package. We have developed firstly a Lightcache that works on GI, and our users can expect even greater rendering power in future updates as we work on combining biased and unbiased path tracing to reflection, adaptive sampling, depth-of-field, motion blur, denoising and what have you.”

The new light cache is designed specifically to speed up secondary global illumination ray calculations by reducing the random noise at render time. Cebas promise that renders created with the new light cache will show little to no visual difference to fully unbiased renderings.

This drop also sees improvements to sub-surface scattering which now uses random walk techniques to enhance the speed and appearance. According to Cebas the new algorithm is “Physically accurate and lets you control the absorption of light based on its individual depth-based Wavelength Spectrum filtering. SSS works much better now with cavities and thin protrusions on the surface”.

The AI Denoiser continues to improve with full support of HDRI colour values, enabling full tone mapping operations after the fact. It also uses less memory and starts faster. Other improvements include support for 3DS Max’s native  Physical Material and support for particle instancing from Thinking Particles, including on the GPU. Finally, area lights and Sky Portals have also been improved. 

FinalRender is available under a rental licensing scheme priced at €24.50 a month, billed annually. You can use up to 2 GPUs with this license but unlimited GPUs and render nodes are also available each for the cost of a single additional license. Find out more on Cebas’s website.